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“Some motela and resorts on
fob Want.d A Locally
all highways report a decrease in
/
both tourist traffic and business On Dairy Farm
volume from last year,” Knepper
Hunting for help on your dairy
aid "but only on the Oregon
Coast is the overall business and farm?
traffic substantially lower.”
The Brookings Chamber «of
Weather conditions and high­ Commerce has a letter from a
L. R. Knepper, manager of the way construction on the Coast nan in Eagle Point who wants to
official A A A. appointmertf s, for Knepper said, have not been live here. The man has worked
♦he Oregon State Motor Associa­ “ideal” this year and the” “greatly on dairy farms most of his life,
tion has just completed a late accelerated rate of road repair ind would like,to do it here.
summer survey of travel business and construction on the coast has
B e t t y Smyth, corresportding
In Oregon and his. findings indi­ slowed traffic somewhat."
secretary for the Chamber of
cate travel business in Oregon on
Summarized his report says:
Commerce, has th ed eta ils. Good
a dollar basis is down in some
On Highway 99 tourist volume chance to stop milking the cow.
areas, although over-all travel in down 3 to 7 per cent during spring
the state may be up.
and early summer with indica­
tions early fall business is going tnd LaGrande makes future
»remising. Overall traffic volume
u.P
ip about. 10 per cent.
On Highway 97 business volume
H ghway 395 shows traffic tn-
about same as last year or better
reased
and some places showing
with traveling over it into Canada
now facing competition from arger business volume notwith-
Highways 101, 99 and 395 as con itanding increased number of
struction
on those roads is fin­ units for service.
TYPEWRITERS
ished.
’ 1st« -
The Wallowa lake-area has re­
’'•< okeeping Supplies
On Hfgfiway 30 volume general­ ported a good year due to better
>
Piling Equipment
ly up but that highway feeling ind more advertising and com
competition from the good pro­ >leted road improvements.
motion of US Highway 26. Elimi-
On the lower section of High­
I nation o f Rowena loop and im- way 101 greatest drop in business
• provements between Pendleton was reported but most business
men along that highway "confi-
lent that major cons’ruction that
must be done in summer on the
coast means improved business in
•he future.”
Throughout the slate the rea-
;ons aihanced for the drop in
• Specializing in Fadiator Repair
tourist business where'' it occur­
red, were: road construction,
Call Smith Rivet 337 or Box T51 Brookings
weather, more people using camp
tor delivery service
ng facilities in federa' and state
•
Open Evenings 7 to 9 p.m.
I oarjjs, higher gasoline prices, can- "i
Hious spending of the people, not
GEO. SHH’LEY, OWNER
is many coming from the East
and Middle West, fewer you n g1
[ample traveling, not enough ad- 4
vertisiug by state, county and ”
'city governments and “too m a n y 'g
motels
with some erroneously
Highway Frontage
«Highway 101, Oregon’s Main Street)
thinking AAA reports on road
C l’ETCO RIVER FRONTAGE
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RESIDENTIAL LOTS
construction and the routing of:
NEW HOMES
-. RANCHES
-
FARM LANDS ’ •
travelers to other highways be- J
cause of construction partly re- ”
.
ACREAGE
-
INDUSTRIAL SITES
sponsible.
INCOME PROPERTIES
I
’
Beautiful Scenic, Parklike Ocean Frontage
On the latter reason Knepper
j tiointe I out that the AAA offices
do not "route" travelers by anv
REAL ESTATE BROKER
one highway as
“Who trtea to Jo (he common things of life uncommonly well."
"All we do is to give-¡he facts on
Gardner Bldg
,
iPhone 3801 >
Brookings, Oregon
consti union
and the
tourist
make;, his own decis on as to-
which rou’e to take." he said.
Brookings Harbor Pilot
Vivian May Schmidt
Engagement Announced
Baltimore that it takes so long
to visit everyone they don’t know
.. . .
when they’ll be home. They mi««
Mr and Mrs. Pete Schmidt of Brook^ s. though.
it
£
Brookings announce the engage- too ,ong
1 06
ment of their daughter, Vivian
'
.
Mae, to James E. Harness, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Harness
Mrs. Roy Kenyon and children
of Riverside, Calif. The couple, Gail, Anna, Dallas, and Donna
who are both employed in Port- Ettinger were week-end guests at
land, plan to be married in Janu- the Judson Bell home in Carpen
ary-
1
, . iterville.
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 24, 1953'
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Tourist Business
Down Along 101
O ff 1C 2
Supplies
McNABB ELECTRIC CO.
WIRING — HEATING — ENGINEERING
• J
Shop Phone 2283
.
Res. Phone 2632
4
t
Y E L T O N 'S
BAYVIEW GARAGE
3 Dap Service
A t State Line
Latest Most Modern Equipment
Plenty of Free Parking -
Cordet man's
4
C H O IC E P R O P E R T IE S
Dry Cleaning
*
Across
frohi
Bowling
Alley
.7 ppearance Counts Eiervichere’'
W. H. BRADY
rile survev confirm ed a fact
n o tie td ••‘ .th e tra v e l in fo rm atio n
desk ot the O regon S ta te M otor
A ssociation th a t th ere is a g ro w ­
lin g tren d of resistan ce to prices
for -m eals and lodgings. K riepper
said.
'
Surf Side Trailer
Court Open
DR. REHARD L. SMITH
Optometrist
Announces Change of
Oflicc Location
TO THE MANLEY BUILDING
Hours Daily 9-5
Saturday 9-12
Telephone
3182
Mr. and Mrs. R B. McGugin.
owners of Surf Side Trailer Court,
state that accommodations are
”«'w available to modern trailers
‘ ’tl.'
Non-modern trailers may
pari- >r -»bout six weeks, when the
modern util y building, now un­
der eoe■•••’iction. is completed.
Sui t Side Trail r Court is lo­
cated bes’ le the sea live miles
south of Brookings in a beautiful
well protected area and is unique
among trailer courts due to the
fact that it is one of the very few-
on the Pacific Coast offering a
private b each ',to the tenants
where they may spend, their lei­
sure hours swimming, surf fishing,
eeling. digging clams, or lounging
on the sandy beach
Salmon and trout fishing may
he enjoyed in the Winchqck
river just a few hundred feet
trom Surf Side.
During the winter months
beach combing for glass floats,
nets, rope, drift wood and various
other items may be indulged in
1 To live at Surf Side is a vaca­
tion > Turn off Highway 101 at
the Surf Side sign 5 miles south
of Brookings
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